Administrative Counties

Regions, Counties, Districts and Cities: 

There are 9 official regions in England. They have been split up into administrative counties, which are used for local government but do not however replace the historic counties.

Districts with (unitary) after them are unitary authorities; districts that administer their own local government but are still geographically associated with that county.

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1. North East:

• County Durham
  • County Durham (unitary)
    • City of Durham.
      
  • Darlington (unitary)
  • Hartlepool (unitary)
    • Town of Hartlepool.
  • Stockton-on-Tees (north of the river Tees) (unitary)
    • Town of Stockton-on-Tees.

• North Yorkshire (part only)
  • Middlesbrough (unitary)
    • Town of Middlesbrough.
  • Redcar and Cleveland (unitary)
  • Stockton-on-Tees (south of the river Tees) (unitary)

• Northumberland (unitary)
  • Towns of Haltwhistle & Hexham.
  • Village of Etal.
  • Blenkinsopp Castle, Featherstone Castle and Heatherslaw Light Railway.

• Tyne and Wear
  • Gateshead
    • Town of Gateshead.
    • Angel of the North.
  • Newcastle upon Tyne
    • City of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
      
  • North Tyneside
    • Town of North Shields.
  • South Tyneside
    • Town of South Shields.
  • Sunderland
    • City of Sunderland.
      

2. North West:

• Cheshire
  • Cheshire East (unitary)
  • Cheshire West and Chester (unitary)
    • City of Chester.
      
    • Town of Ellesmere Port.
  • Halton (unitary)
    • Town of Runcorn.
  • Warrington (unitary)
    • Town of Warrington.

• Cumbria
  • Allerdale
    • Towns of Keswick, Maryport and Workington.
  • Barrow-in-Furness
    • Town of Barrow-in Furness.
  • Carlisle
    • City of Carlisle.
    • Towns of Brampton and Longtown.
    • Villages of Banks and Wetheral.
    • Carlisle Cathedral.
    • Lanercost Priory.
    • Policeman Grotesque.
    • Wetheral Priory.
  • Copeland
    • Town of Whitehaven.
    • Villages of Moresby and St Bees.
  • Eden
    • Towns of Alston, Appleby and Penrith.
    • Villages of Armathwaite, Brough, Brougham, Croglin, Pooley Bridge and Shap.
    • Lowther Castle.
    • Settle & Carlisle Railway: Appleby.
    • South Tynedale Railway.
    • Threlkeld Mining Museum.
    • Ullswater Lake.
  • South Lakeland
    • Towns of Ambleside, Bowness-on-Windermere, Kendal and Ulverston.
    • Villages of Grasmere and Oxenholme.
    • Thirlmere to Grasmere.

• Greater Manchester
  • Bolton
    • Town of Bolton.
  • Bury
    • Towns of Bury, Prestwich and Radcliffe.
  • Manchester
    • City of Manchester.
    • Beetham Tower Manchester.
    • Manchester Metrolink.
  • Oldham
    • Town of Oldham.
  • Rochdale
    • Town of Rochdale.
  • Salford
    • City of Salford.
      
    • Town of Eccles.
  • Stockport
    • Town of Stockport.
  • Tameside
    • Towns of Ashton-under-Lyne and Dukinfield.
  • Trafford
    • Towns of Altrincham, Sale, Stretford and Urmston (Trafford Centre).
  • Wigan
    • Town of Wigan.

• Lancashire
  • Blackburn with Darwen (unitary)
    • Towns of Blackburn and Darwen.
    • Blackburn Cathedral, Blackburn Railway Station Artwork.
  • Blackpool (unitary)
    • Town of Blackpool.
  • Burnley
    • Town of Burnley.
    • The Singing Ringing Tree.
  • Chorley
    • Town of Chorley.
    • Buckshaw Hall.
    • Clayton-le-Woods Reservoir.
    • Preston England Temple.
  • Fylde
    • Town of Lytham St Annes.
    • Constituent towns of Lytham and St Annes on Sea.
  • Hyndburn
    • Town of Accrington.
  • Lancaster
    • City of Lancaster.
    • Town of Morecambe.
    • Lancaster Castle.
  • Pendle
  • Preston
    • City of Preston.
    • District of Fulwood.
    • Preston Riverside.
    • Exclusive Trains Preston.
  • Ribble Valley
    • Town of Clitheroe.
  • Rossendale
    • Town of Rawtenstall.
    • The Halo.
  • South Ribble
    • Town of Leyland.
    • Hoghton Tower.
    • Samlesbury Hall.
  • West Lancashire
    • Towns of Ormskirk and Skelmersdale.
    • Villages of Aughton, Banks, Burscough Bridge, Halsall and Tarleton.
    • St Stephen’s Church Banks.
    • West Lancashire Light Railway.
  • Wyre

• Merseyside
  • Knowsley
  • Liverpool
    • City of Liverpool.
    • Mersey Ferries.
    • Mersey Maritime Festival.
    • Merseyrail.
    • Radio City Tower.
    • Superlambananas.
  • St Helens
    • Town of St Helens.
  • Sefton
    • Towns of Bootle, Crosby, Formby and Southport.
    • Villages of Birkdale, Churchtown, Hightown, Little Crosby, Lydiate and Sefton.
    • Emmanuel Parish Church.
  • Wirral
    • Towns of Birkenhead, Hoylake, Leasowe, New Brighton, Wallasey and West Kirkby.
    • Village of Port Sunlight.

3. Yorkshire and the Humber:

• East Riding of Yorkshire
  • East Riding of Yorkshire (unitary)
    • Humber Bridge
  • Kingston upon Hull (unitary)
    • City of Hull.

• Lincolnshire (part only)
  • North East Lincolnshire (unitary)
  • North Lincolnshire (unitary)

• North Yorkshire (part only)
  • Craven
    • Town of Skipton.
    • Ribblehead Viaduct.
  • Hambleton
  • Harrogate
    • City of Ripon.
    • Towns of Harrogate and Knaresborough.
    • Fountains Abbey.
  • Richmondshire
  • Ryedale
  • Scarborough
  • Selby
    • Town of Selby.
  • York (unitary)
    • City of York.

• South Yorkshire
  • Barnsley
  • Doncaster
  • Rotherham
  • Sheffield
    • City of Sheffield.

• West Yorkshire
  • Bradford
    • City of Bradford.
  • Calderdale
    • Towns of Halifax, Hebden Bridge and Todmorden.
  • Kirklees
    • Town of Huddersfield.
  • Leeds
    • City of Leeds.
  • Wakefield
    • City of Wakefield.

4. East Midlands:

• Derbyshire
  • Amber Valley
  • Bolsover
  • Chesterfield
  • Derby (unitary)
    • City of Derby.
  • Derbyshire Dales
  • Erewash
  • High Peak
  • North East Derbyshire
  • South Derbyshire

• Leicestershire
  • Blaby
  • Charnwood
  • Harborough
  • Hinckley & Bosworth
  • Leicester (unitary)
    • City of Leicester.
  • Melton
    • Town of Melton Mowbray.
  • North West Leicestershire
  • Oadby & Wigston

• Lincolnshire (part only)
  • Boston
  • East Lindsey
  • Lincoln
    • City of Lincoln.
  • North Kesteven
  • South Holland
  • South Kesteven
  • West Lindsey

• Northamptonshire
  • Corby
  • Daventry
  • East Northamptonshire
  • Kettering
  • Northampton
    • Town of Northampton.
  • South Northamptonshire
    • Town of Towcester.
  • Wellingborough

• Nottinghamshire
  • Ashfield
  • Bassetlaw
  • Broxtowe
  • Gedling
  • Mansfield
  • Newark & Sherwood
  • Nottingham (unitary)
    • City of Nottingham.
  • Rushcliffe

• Rutland
  • Town of Oakham

5. West Midlands:

• Herefordshire (unitary)
  • City of Hereford.
  • Town of Bromyard.

• Shropshire
  • Shropshire (unitary)
    • Town of Shrewsbury.
    • The Quantum Leap.
  • Telford & Wrekin (unitary)

• Staffordshire
  • Cannock Chase
  • East Staffordshire
  • Lichfield
    • City of Lichfield.
  • Newcastle-under-Lyme
    • Town of Newcastle-under-Lyme.
  • South Staffordshire
  • Stafford
  • Staffordshire Moorlands
  • Stoke-on-Trent (unitary)
    • City of Stoke on Trent.
  • Tamworth
    • Town of Tamworth.

• Warwickshire
  • North Warwickshire
  • Nuneaton & Bedworth
  • Rugby
  • Stratford-on-Avon
  • Warwick
    • Towns of Leamington Spa and Warwick.

• West Midlands
  • Birmingham
    • City of Birmingham.
    • St Philips Cathedral.
  • Coventry
    • City of Coventry.
    • Coventry Cathedral.
  • Dudley
  • Sandwell
  • Solihull
  • Walsall
  • Wolverhampton
    • City of Wolverhampton.

• Worcestershire
  • Bromsgrove
  • Malvern Hills
  • Redditch
  • Worcester
    • City of Worcester.
  • Wychavon
  • Wyre Forest

6. East of England:

• Bedfordshire
  • Bedford (unitary)
    • Town of Bedford.
  • Central Bedfordshire (unitary)
  • Luton (unitary)

• Cambridgeshire
  • Cambridge
    • City of Cambridge.
  • East Cambridgeshire
    • City of Ely.
  • Fenland
  • Huntingdonshire
    • Towns of Huntingdon and St Ives.
  • Peterborough (unitary)
    • City of Peterborough.
  • South Cambridgeshire

• Essex
  • Basildon
  • Braintree
  • Brentwood
  • Castle Point
  • Chelmsford
    • City of Chelmsford.
  • Colchester
    • Town of Colchester.
  • Epping Forest
  • Harlow
  • Maldon
  • Rochford
  • Southend-on-Sea (unitary)
  • Tendring
  • Thurrock (unitary)
  • Uttlesford

• Hertfordshire
  • Broxbourne
  • Dacorum
  • East Hertfordshire
  • Hertsmere
  • North Hertfordshire
  • St Albans
    • City of St Albans.
  • Stevenage
  • Three Rivers
  • Watford
  • Welwyn Hatfield

• Norfolk
  • Breckland
  • Broadland
  • Great Yarmouth
  • King’s Lynn & West Norfolk
  • North Norfolk
  • Norwich
    • City of Norwich.
  • South Norfolk

• Suffolk
  • Babergh
  • Forest Heath
  • Ipswich
  • Mid Suffolk
  • St Edmundsbury
  • Suffolk Coastal
  • Waveney

7. London:

• City of London
  • City of London (Part 1, Part 2).
  • London Underground
  • Docklands Light Railway 

• Greater London
  • Barking and Dagenham
  • Barnet
  • Bexley
  • Brent
    • Borough of Brent.
  • Bromley
  • Camden
    • Borough of Camden.
  • City of Westminster
    • City of Westminster (Part 1, Part 2)
  • Croydon
    • Town of Croydon.
  • Ealing
  • Enfield
  • Greenwich
    • Town of Greenwich.
  • Hackney
  • Hammersmith and Fulham
  • Haringey
  • Harrow
  • Havering
  • Hillingdon
  • Hounslow
  • Islington
    • Borough of Islington.
  • Kensington & Chelsea
    • Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.
  • Kingston upon Thames
    • Town of Kingston-upon-Thames.
  • Lambeth
    • Town of Brixton.
    • Borough of Lambeth.
  • Lewisham
  • Merton
  • Newham
  • Redbridge
  • Richmond upon Thames
    • Towns of Richmond and Twickenham.
  • Southwark
    • Borough of Southwark.
  • Sutton
  • Tower Hamlets
    • Borough of Tower Hamlets.
  • Waltham Forest
  • Wandsworth
  • London Underground
  • Docklands Light Railway 

8. South East:

• Berkshire
  • Bracknell Forest (unitary)
  • Reading (unitary)
    • Town of Reading.
  • Slough (unitary)
    • Town of Slough.
  • West Berkshire (unitary)
  • Windsor & Maidenhead (unitary)
    • Towns of Eton and Windsor.
  • Wokingham (unitary)

• Buckinghamshire
  • Aylesbury Vale
    • Town of Buckingham.
  • Chiltern
  • Milton Keynes (unitary)
  • South Bucks
  • Wycombe

• East Sussex
  • Brighton & Hove (unitary)
    • City of Brighton & Hove.
  • Eastbourne
  • Hastings
  • Lewes
  • Rother
  • Wealden

• Hampshire
  • Basingstoke & Deane
  • East Hampshire
  • Eastleigh
  • Fareham
    • Town of Fareham.
  • Gosport
    • Town of Gosport.
  • Hart
  • Havant
  • New Forest
    • New Forest National Park.
  • Portsmouth (unitary)
    • City of Portsmouth.
    • Portsmouth Old Town.
  • Rushmoor
  • Southampton (unitary)
    • City of Southampton.
  • Test Valley
  • Winchester
    • City of Winchester.

• Isle of Wight
  • Towns of Cowes, Newport and Ryde.

• Kent
  • Ashford
  • Canterbury
    • City of Canterbury.
  • Dartford
  • Dover
  • Gravesham
  • Medway (unitary)
    • Former City of Rochester.
    • Town of Chatham.
  • Maidstone
  • Sevenoaks
  • Shepway
  • Swale
  • Thanet
  • Tonbridge & Malling
  • Tunbridge Wells

• Oxfordshire
  • Cherwell
  • Oxford
    • City of Oxford.
  • South Oxfordshire
  • Vale of White Horse
  • West Oxfordshire

• Surrey
  • Elmbridge
  • Epsom and Ewell
  • Guildford
    • Town of Guildford.
  • Mole Valley
  • Reigate and Banstead
  • Runnymede
  • Spelthorne
  • Surrey Heath
  • Tandridge
  • Waverley
  • Woking

• West Sussex
  • Adur
  • Arun
    • Towns of Arundel and Bognor Regis.
  • Chichester
    • City of Chichester.
  • Crawley
  • Horsham
  • Mid Sussex
  • Worthing

9. South West:

• Bristol
  • City of Bristol

• Cornwall
  • Cornwall (unitary)
    • City of Truro.
    • Towns of Bodmin, Fowey, Launceston, Looe, Mousehole, Newquay, Padstow, Penzance and Saltash.
    • Village of Minions.
    • Land’s End.
  • Isles of Scilly (unitary)
    • Town of Hugh Town.
    • Village of Old Town.
    • Bishop Rock Lighthouse.

• Devon
  • Exeter
    • City of Exeter.
  • East Devon
    • Town of Axminster.
  • Mid Devon
  • North Devon
  • Plymouth (unitary)
    • City of Plymouth.
    • Plymouth Fish Trail.
    • Tamar Bridges.
  • South Hams
    • Towns of Dartmouth and Totnes.
    • Villages of Kingswear, Slapton, Stoke Fleming and Torcross.
    • Dart Ferries.
  • Teignbridge
    • Villages of Buckfast and Buckfastleigh.
  • Torbay (unitary)
    • Towns of Brixham, Paignton and Torquay.
    • Village of Babbacombe.
  • Torridge
  • West Devon
    • Town of Tavistock.
    • Villages of Princetown and Two Bridges.
    • Dartmoor National Park.

• Dorset
  • Bournemouth (unitary)
    • Town of Bournemouth.
  • Christchurch
  • East Dorset
    • Town of Wimborne Minster.
  • North Dorset
    • Town of Shaftesbury.
  • Poole (unitary)
    • Town of Poole.
  • Purbeck
  • West Dorset
    • Towns of Dorchester and Lyme Regis.
  • Weymouth & Portland
    • Town of Weymouth.
    • Isle of Portland.

• Gloucestershire
  • Cheltenham
    • Town of Cheltenham.
  • Cotswold
  • Forest of Dean
  • Gloucester
    • City of Gloucester.
  • South Gloucestershire
  • Stroud
  • Tewkesbury
    • Town of Tewkesbury.

• Somerset
  • Bath & North East Somerset (unitary)
    • City of Bath.
  • Mendip
    • City of Wells.
    • Town of Glastonbury.
  • North Somerset  (unitary)
    • Town of Weston-super-Mare.
  • Sedgemoor
    • Town of Burnham-on-Sea.
    • Village of Cheddar (for Cheddar Gorge).
  • South Somerset
  • Taunton Deane
    • Town of Taunton.
    • Taunton Dragon Trail.
  • West Somerset

• Wiltshire
  • Swindon (unitary)
  • Wiltshire (unitary)
    • City of Salisbury.
    • Stonehenge.